Dick Lugar is no Republican. Well, he was Obama's favorite Republican when they were both in the Senate.This residency is a disgrace and he is still on our primary ballot, although that decision has been appealed.

Looks like Indiana democrats could teach Wisconsin Democrats a thing or two about who exactly should be eligible to vote in their elections.. And just how might you prove you live where you say you live?

Well that's because most are anti incumbant to begin with. Dan Burton is another 30+ year GOP rep whose calling it quits. Probably cause he barely squeaked by a six way primary challenge last time he was up.

Term limits is the answer. And don't tell me that's what elections are for or we wouldn't have them for the President.

If it was a case of selling one and having to wait for closing on a new residence, I'd fuss at the opportunism.

But really, how can a person not realize that you ought to have a legal residence in the district you represent?

(Granted, I just read a (supposedly) sincere article about voter ID that had, as an example, a poor college student who was afraid he might not be able to vote because he only had an out of state drivers license and apparently no one writing or editing or approving this article went... waitaminute...

I generally *like* Richard Lugar and nearly voted for him for President at the 1996 Iowa Straw Poll (I was there for Phil Gramm who got my vote but was impressed by him nonetheless). As I recall, he campaigned on abolishing the income tax and replacing it with a national retail sales tax and was also one of the architects of “Freedom to Farm” which phased out farm subsidies (until Jeffords jumped ship in 2001 and Harkin became the Senate Ag Committee Chair and pushed to restore them).

That being said, I support term limits and if you’ve been in Washington DC so long that your primary residency is there, then you’ve probably been in office too long.

I don't get it. What are Democrats doing making life difficult for a natural ally, RINO Lugar?

It's all about the Ds maintaining control of the Senate. They did the same to Bob Packwood in the 90s, who not only was a huge RINO, but a feminist RINO. He carried the feminist's water on the R side for decades, through the ERA travails of the era. Then, in 1995, with control of the Senate hanging in the balance, the feminists turned on him for being a serial kisser.

What about homeless people??? How are they supposed to vote??? What if they don't have family or friends????? Don't these people realize blacks and Mexicans are less likely to have a stable address??????

CALL THE UNITED NATIONS!!!1!1!!

More seriously -- looks like he screwed up. He should have at least rented a cheap apartment to maintain residence.

Two things. They should not meet but half of the year and preferably every other year. We do not need them to "get things done.". Finally they should meet in DC on,y once a decade. The rest of the time they should meet in tertiary cities at least a three hour drive from any Palm Restaurant. Thisvwould make it difficult on the lobbyists and other hangers on.

And he didn't bother to rent a studio apartment, after he sold his house?

My representative, Niki Tsongas did that when she wanted to run. After husband died, Paul Tsongas, she moved out of the area. But five years ago, when there was an open election she rented a apartment as her primary residence to vote. Who knows how many nights she may use it, probably only for when she is actually here.

Unless they have hot tits, like that one from Peoria. He can stay forever as long as his tits hold up. Same with that female senator from New York-she has a nice wrack and the tits are holding up well-but any slippage and she's gone.

If we are going to have government dominated by career politicians (and that's what we have, of every party and philosophy), wouldn't we be wiser to scrap the whole idea of "geographical representation", and switch to a more parliamentary form of government. Career politicians would rise through the ranks of their parties, based on policy expertise (in part), and as they rise would be assigned to run in safer and safer districts. We just dispense with the fiction that representatives actually have some life experience in the state or district (almost every representative lives in the DC area, and when voted out continue to live and work in the DC area). So we can have Lugar from Indiana (or why not Maine, or Alaska?), H. Clinton from NY. Kucinich would not be lost to the Democratic party, but would run from some other district (Seattle?). The advantages of this are (a) much stronger party identification and unity on important issues and (b) a politician can advance his/her career by policy expertise, rather than purely political salemanship.

As I understand it, members of Congress get a (top secret not reported on taxes) expense account to relieve them of some of the burden they bear in their lives of public service, since they live in two places at once. If this slimeball took a single penny of this money after selling his Indiana residence, he should be up on serious felony charges. If he isn't brought up on charges, the remiander of the Senate should be charged with aiding and abetting.

Some of you folks are just amazingly cynical. Did it ever occur to you that maybe they were simply following the law? A Democrat majority election committee did roughly the same thing to Michigan's long-time Senator Carl Levin (first elected in 1978) a few years back too when they found that his address was to a flea bag apartment bldg in Detroit that had been torn down a few years earlier. Momentarily embarrassed Levin just rented another one. G.H.W. Bush's address for years was a hotel room in Houston. BFD. It just shows contempt for the voters and poor management skills (to have let it happen) but then we already knew that.

"No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen."

Emphasis added. If Inhabitant simply means living it, Mr. Lugar simply has to be in the state on election day, otherwise, I'd say he fails to qualify. And good riddance. If a member of congress can't have enough respect to retain a residence in their home state, they shouldn't be representing that state.